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Patriots WR Wes Welker reveals how a small adjustment led to his 41-yard TD

Ian Rapoport Monday, November 28, 2011

Wes Welker was back to his old tricks after a few down weeks, and he won't be facing questions about being shut down this week. In fact, in the 38-20 win over the Eagles yesterday, Welker had eight catches for 115 yards and two scores.

The big play was a 41-yard TD midway through the second quarter on a play-action fake that featured safety Nate Allen diving for the line of scrimmage. Afterward, Welker explained how they made it happen.

"We ran the same play early on and the safety came down pretty hard," Welker said, "so I told him in the huddle, ‘if I see this coverage, I’m going to stutter him and go,’ and he was fine with it. Luckily we got the coverage and we were able to get a touchdown on it.”

Yup, that worked. Welker said that's the kind of stuff he does with Brady all the time. A tweak here, a tweak there. It all helps them come together in ways others can't.

"We’re always trying to refine everything that we do now, and sometimes we try and throw a wrinkle in there every once in a while," Welker said. "We’ve gotten to a point where trying to think of something new from where we are is kind of tough. We’re always trying to come up with different techniques of different routes and how we can maybe use a route that we run a lot to help that route out by maybe putting a double move to it or different things like that or things of that nature to make it as complicated as we can for ourselves.”

The team started slow, going down 10-0. No surprise there, that's happened every week. But it was the response that Welker liked.

“I think us scoring that first touchdown and moving the ball and understanding what the game was going to be and adjusting the game plan, the coaches did a good job of that, and going a lot of empty and things like that, moving the ball down the field," Welker said. "After we got that first touchdown, then we got the defense, I believe they got an interception or something like that, and we then were able to make it 14-10 there I think a couple possessions later. When we did that, it just kind of steamrolled from there and we were able to stay on them. The defense had a great goal line stand down there once again and it all just kind of came together and we started playing really good complimentary football."